08 Apr, 2009
Multiple Intelligences Thrive in Smartville
At the Enota Multiple Intelligences Academy, in Gainesville, Georgia, students know exactly how they are smart.
Originally published April 2009. © Edutopia.org; The George Lucas Educational Foundation.
Read the full article, Elementary School Kids Show Their Multiple Intelligences, at Edutopia.org.
The entire article is interesting, but this part really stood out:
This schoolwide application of multiple-intelligences (MI) theory to curriculum is not an ivory-tower exercise, say Enota educators. It is good teaching. “Changing the definition of smart needed to happen for a long time,” says fourth-grade teacher Audrey Thornton. “Gardner’s principle was written to build in flexibility. The beauty in it is that you can take the philosophy and figure out how it’s going to work with your kids.” In other words, adds fifth-grade language arts and social studies teacher Denise McConnell, “we don’t teach content. We teach children.”
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